Maretick v. South Chicago Community Hospital

Mr. Justice Denis E. Sullivan

delivered the opinion of the court.

A jury returned a verdict in the above entitled cause in favor of plaintiff for $45,000, for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff while a patient in the South Chicago Community Hospital. After the verdict was returned by the jury, the court on motion of defendant entered a judgment non obstante veredicto in favor of defendant, and it is from that judgment that plaintiff brings this appeal.

The facts with relation to the accident are substantially as follows:

The plaintiff was born on October 6, 1926 in the South Chicago…